Short Breaks In — China

China • 4 days • From $220

This 4-day Beijing itinerary explores China’s capital through its monumental spaces, imperial heritage, and everyday neighbourhood life. Designed to balance vast historical scale with human moments, the itinerary moves between palaces, walls, temples, and hutong streets, allowing Beijing’s measured pace and layered history to define the experience.

China • 4 days • From $240

This 4-day Shanghai itinerary explores China’s most dynamic city through its skyline, historic concessions, river life, and everyday neighbourhoods. Designed to balance speed with observation, the itinerary moves between iconic modern spaces and quieter streets, allowing Shanghai’s sense of momentum and reinvention to reveal itself naturally.

China • 3 days • From $210

This 3-day Xi’an itinerary explores one of China’s most historically significant cities through ancient walls, buried armies, religious quarters, and everyday streets shaped by centuries of continuity. Designed to emphasise origins rather than spectacle, the itinerary allows Xi’an to reveal itself as a place where history does not sit behind glass, but remains close to the ground and to daily life.

China • 3 days • From $210

This 3-day Chengdu itinerary explores one of China’s most liveable cities through teahouses, parks, neighbourhood streets, Sichuan cuisine, and a quiet encounter with giant pandas. Designed to prioritise everyday life over spectacle, the itinerary balances Chengdu’s softness, routine, and cultural depth, allowing the city’s famously unhurried rhythm to define the experience.

China • 3 days • From $190

This 3-day Guilin itinerary explores one of China’s most recognisable landscapes through limestone karsts, winding rivers, and rural villages shaped by water and stone. Designed to prioritise space and rhythm over coverage, the itinerary allows Guilin’s scenery to unfold slowly, revealing a landscape that feels both dramatic and deeply calm.

China • 3 days • From $200

This 3-day Hangzhou itinerary explores one of China’s most classically admired cities through West Lake, shaded causeways, tea-covered hills, and quiet temples. Designed to slow attention rather than fill time, the itinerary allows Hangzhou’s long association with beauty, balance, and reflection to emerge through water, walking, and repetition.

China • 3 days • From $210

This 3-day Guangzhou itinerary explores southern China’s long-standing commercial capital through riverfront walks, historic districts, markets, and food culture. Designed to focus on lived continuity rather than spectacle, the itinerary reveals Guangzhou as a city shaped by exchange, routine, and the steady movement of people and goods along water and streets.

China • 2 days • From $160

This 2-day Dengfeng itinerary explores the spiritual and physical heart of Chinese martial arts at the foot of Mount Song. Centered on Shaolin Temple and its surrounding landscape, the itinerary focuses on discipline, repetition, and quiet endurance. Rather than treating Shaolin as a spectacle, the experience is shaped by observation, walking, and time — allowing stillness to emerge through structure.

China • 3 days • From $160

This 3-day Changzhou itinerary balances the city’s most recommended classics — historic Qingguo Alley and Tianning Temple — with relaxed parks, canal-side streets, and a fun modern theme-park day. It’s designed for first-time visitors who want ‘must-sees’ without rushing, plus a few local-feeling corners for photos, tea, and slow walks.